Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson This year, I set myself a challenge to read 12 books in a year. Then, after 6 months, I realised that I’d reached my target of reading 12 books, and upped my game to 24 books in a year. This is the 16th book I read. My other mini reviews are also on this blog. Having a Kindle has done some serious damage to my bank balance. If I hear a book has good reviews, I’ll buy it, without really reading anything about the storyline at all. Someone I follow on twitter (I’ve long since forgotten who) asked for book recommendations, and this one won hands down. On the strength of that, I clicked ‘buy’.  This is a story of a woman who wakes up each morning thinking she’s a 20 year old woman. She’s actually a woman in her 40s, with a brain injury, who forgets everything she’s done on a nightly basis. She doesn’t recognise her husband, or her house, and doesn’t remember what happens to her.  The book tells the story of how she learns to deal with her amnesia and piece together her life by keeping a journal. Through re-living her life by reading her journal each morning, she begins to have new memories and starts to regain control of her life. The last third of the book takes on a completely different tone as she gets closer and closer to finding out the truth about what happened to her.  I can’t say any more without giving away too much of the book, but put it this way: I was halfway through this book when I sat down before bed to read a chapter. Several hours later as the birds started singing, I finished the book and was able to go to sleep, a couple of hours before my alarm went off again. It was totally worth yawning through the next day of meetings, and one of my favourite books of the year so far. 

Before I Go To Sleep - SJ Watson

This year, I set myself a challenge to read 12 books in a year. Then, after 6 months, I realised that I’d reached my target of reading 12 books, and upped my game to 24 books in a year. This is the 16th book I read. My other mini reviews are also on this blog.

Having a Kindle has done some serious damage to my bank balance. If I hear a book has good reviews, I’ll buy it, without really reading anything about the storyline at all. Someone I follow on twitter (I’ve long since forgotten who) asked for book recommendations, and this one won hands down. On the strength of that, I clicked ‘buy’. 

This is a story of a woman who wakes up each morning thinking she’s a 20 year old woman. She’s actually a woman in her 40s, with a brain injury, who forgets everything she’s done on a nightly basis. She doesn’t recognise her husband, or her house, and doesn’t remember what happens to her. 

The book tells the story of how she learns to deal with her amnesia and piece together her life by keeping a journal. Through re-living her life by reading her journal each morning, she begins to have new memories and starts to regain control of her life. The last third of the book takes on a completely different tone as she gets closer and closer to finding out the truth about what happened to her. 

I can’t say any more without giving away too much of the book, but put it this way: I was halfway through this book when I sat down before bed to read a chapter. Several hours later as the birds started singing, I finished the book and was able to go to sleep, a couple of hours before my alarm went off again. It was totally worth yawning through the next day of meetings, and one of my favourite books of the year so far. 

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